{"product_id":"the-president-by-miguel-angel-asturias","title":"'The President' by Miguel Ángel Asturias","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"620\"\u003eFirst published in Spanish as \u003cem data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"304\"\u003eEl Señor Presidente\u003c\/em\u003e, Miguel Ángel Asturias’s \u003cem data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"345\"\u003eThe President\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the foundational Latin American novels of dictatorship.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"620\"\u003eIt paints a dark, hallucinatory portrait of an unnamed authoritarian regime, where fear spreads through the streets like weather and power works less through law than rumour, paranoia, spectacle, and arbitrary cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"622\" data-end=\"1146\"\u003eAsturias, later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends political realism with dream logic, satire, mythic distortion, and sudden bursts of brutality. The result is not a neat historical novel so much as a pressure chamber: citizens, informers, lovers, officials, and enemies all caught inside the unstable imagination of tyranny. Good for readers of García Márquez, Bolaño, Kafka, Roberto Arlt, or anyone interested in the long literary prehistory of magical realism before it got turned into a tasteful export item.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1346\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback. 1997 Waveland Press edition, English translation of \u003cem data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1263\"\u003eEl Señor Presidente\u003c\/em\u003e. Good used condition with light general shelf wear; binding sound and pages clean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45348444569683,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-05T140828.218.png?v=1780632537","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-president-by-miguel-angel-asturias","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}